On 03/03/2012 10:25 PM, Santhosh Thottingal wrote: >> Here i have a question that at this moment is there any developer of >> developer group is working on this issue? if yes then i want to join with >> him. > > I had discussed this with Pediapress developers in the past. I > started a project many months back to develop a general purpose PDF > rendering library for complex scripts and I had announced it here: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002198.html > And I have an online version based on the code in development > http://silpa.org.in/Render. It can create PDFs from Bengali wiki pages > and possibly most of the scripts that we support. The text rendering > engine used is Pango. This is my petproject and 2-3 people joined me, > but recently it is inactive in development since we are not getting > free time. The library require lot of work to reach a reasonably > usable state. Then it require good amount of effort to integrate with > collection extension. > > The project is hosted at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib > and available in Debian. > > > Thanks > Santhosh
Santhosh, it looks like Nasir might be interested in working on this as a Google Summer of Code project: > ... Is [it] possible to apply GSoC for this issue. If this is the case, Santhosh, would you be interested in possibly mentoring Nasir? -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
